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Sleep well, be well: Health Promotion’s May campaign
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We could all use better sleep. That’s why the PSP Health Promotion team is dedicating the entire month of May on sleep and what you can do to get better quality sleep. Follow them on Facebook at 4WingConnection or on Instagram at 4winghealthpromotion. LISA FISHER, HEALTH PROMOTION SPECIALIST Raise your hand if you love sleep! Over here at Health Promotion, we are huge fans of sleep and all that it provides! If you’ve had a chance to chat with anyone on the Health Promotion Team over the past year and a half, you have likely heard us talk about sleep, how fantastic it is and how we want to get our military community sleeping better. With all that being said, we’ve decided to dedicate our May campaign to sleep, because we think it deserves at least a month dedicated to its greatness. We’re still running the ongoing Sleep & Fatigue Project and welcome military members to contact us to participate; however, for May we’ll be working on providing you with some great informational content, interactive opportunities and a chance to win prizes! First up, is our Sleep Rocks activity! Ever since
the Cold Lake Rocks Facebook page and subsequent activities have popped up, we’ve thought about incorporating it into one of our campaigns. We finally have our chance. We’ve partnered with Community Recreation who painted our beautiful sleep-themed rocks and are hiding them around 4 Wing (nonGRA) and the City of Cold Lake. We’ll post some pictures on our social media accounts to provide hints as to their original hiding place. What we’re asking you to do is get outdoors, get active and find those rocks! If you find them, share a picture on social media and tag us (@4winghealthpromotion on Instagram or @4WingConnection on Facebook) and use #SleepRocks. If you don’t have social media, simple send an email with your picture to fisher. lisa@cfmws.com. Every picture shared/sent is an entry into our month-end draw. And don’t worry, our rocks have our Instagram handle, so you’ll know it’s one of ours!
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Our second activity is the promotion of our 7-part Sleep and You Series, part of the 4 Wing BALANCE Virtual Library. Although this series was launched on World Sleep Day back in March, we want to promote it some more. Each week on Tuesday and Thursday we’ll highlight one of the videos on social media. What you need to do is go view the videos and leave a comment on the video to say what you enjoyed or what you learned. Each comment (maximum one per video) will be entered into our month-end draw. You can view the videos on the “PSP – 4 Wing Cold Lake” YouTube channel under the “4 Wing BALANCE Library” heading. As always, you can follow us on social media for some great informational campaign content. We are also encouraging units to reach out and book a virtual presentation on sleep for their members. For more information, contact buchanan.tammy@cfmws.com or fisher.lisa@cfmws.com.
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4 WING COMMAND TEAM MESSAGE Colonel Dave Moar, 4 Wing Commander and Chief Warrant Officer Lee Darling, 4 Wing Chief Warrant Officer
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pril has been a very busy and exciting month at 4 Wing. The Wing celebrated the RCAF’s 97th birthday on April 1 with an impressive 21 ship flypast over the base and the City of Cold Lake. The flypast required a lot of coordination and effort from multiple units but it was a remarkable spectacle to recognize the anniversary. We are now in the middle of an intense period of night training as we catch the last month with truly dark evenings before the constant summer twilight of May to August. The Wing has been supporting several different exercises and there are more upcoming in the next few months. Exercise BAT GUNNER took place in mid-April with participating forces from 408 and 450 Squadron as they conducted a Door Gun Training Camp on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. Starting this week the Wing will be supporting Exercise MAPLE STRIKE and MAPLE RESOLVE. CF-18 aircraft and 4
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Wing personnel will be supporting these exercises from both Cold Lake and Wainwright until early June. On the horizon in June is Exercise AMALGAM DART 21-1, a great opportunity to keep our NORAD forces keen as we train with our US partners. Everyone’s hard work and support to these visiting training partners has been greatly appreciated. It’s clear from our busy schedule that 4 Wing and the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range are critical to the combat readiness of the CAF and our international allies. This month we held two Command Team Town Halls to answer questions from our members and also their families. We greatly appreciate the queries and being able to address your concerns in order to find solutions. These Town Halls will continue on a monthly basis as we get into the annual posting season and house hunting trips in an ever-changing environment of COVID-19. It is my expectation that the warmer spring weather will allow for low intensity outdoor fitness activities run by PSP including spin and yoga classes. The Cold Lake Golf and Winter Club opened up to
its members and non-members last week and has already seen many people teeing off and enjoying the outdoor COVID-friendly activity. The arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine on the base earlier this month was a welcome piece of great news. Military members have already started to receive their first dose. Although the number of vaccinated people is steadily increasing, the number of COVID-19 cases throughout Alberta and Cold Lake is trending upward. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of remaining vigilant with our preventative health measures at work and at home. There is a lot happening at 4 Wing and a lot upcoming during these spring months. Your efforts and dedication to working safely in this ongoing pandemic environment are what allows the Wing to continue to operate at the current level, support numerous exercises, and will ultimately be what allows us to return to normal life again as quickly as possible. Stay safe and stay vigilant with your preventative health measures!
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few years ago when I was serving in Edmonton with 1 Svc Bn, my CO forwarded to me a speech and mess dinner prayer written and delivered by a friend of mine (yes, I have friends, not many, but a few). Unlike me, he likes people and is a very good chaplain (according to an MWO with whom I served in Afghanistan, I’m “not a real padre.” Of course, he was a Patricia, and a jerk. And he still owes me coffee!). Where was I? Ah yes! The speech and prayer. As I said (or implied), it was very good. So I’m going to refer unabashedly to his hard-won thoughts. At the time, this padre was the chaplain for the RCEME school in Borden. Twice blighted, say I – dealing with RCEME-types and posted to Borden. He was doing his rounds wandering the lines drinking someone else’s coffee (at least that’s what I imagine he was doing because that’s what I’d be doing), when he paused among the mat techs. He observed, as he later related at a mess dinner, that “What you are doing here as Mat Techs in your welding is a metaphor for life. You take two pieces of steel and weld them together. You grind it down so that it looks great on the outside and appears to be one piece of steel. Then you cut it into strips. Then we take one of those strips and we test it in a device that will bend the strip. In this way we see how good the weld is on the inside. If it holds you pass. This is like life. You can look good on the outside, but what really counts is what you
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will be like under the pressure and stress of life. It will reveal your character and what you are really like on the inside.” I remember reading that and thinking, “I wish I’d written that!” Which rather shows you my character – as indeed do most of my rambling writings, to my eventual embarrassment. However, we’ve all experienced – or will experience – intense testing, pressure and stress. Certainly, COVID with all its uncertainty, restrictions, lockdowns, and disruption of our lives could be described as ‘testing.’ Or think of basic training (or perhaps you’d rather not). Well, basic was one of those times as were, I’m sure, subsequent career courses. In addition, many of us have dealt with marital stress, death, financial pressure, serious illnesses (of close family members or our own), postings, and more besides. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but none of us will live lives of unadulterated bliss and paradisiacal harmony. As Jesus said, “In this world you will have trouble” (admittedly, not one of His more welcome promises, but true nonetheless). So trouble will come just as sure as the Leafs losing streak. And those troubles, that testing, as my colleague said, will reveal who you really are. So let me encourage you (I can occasionally be encouraging): Always be more concerned about the development of character in your heart than the acquisition of rank on your chest.
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Connection at the Heart (and Name) of Former Family Sponsor Program HOLLY BRIDGES, PLANNING ADVISOR, RCAF FAMILY ADVOCATE Supporting RCAF families has never been more important than it is now, especially in light of the latest retention survey results that showed the impact of the military lifestyle on spouses and partners as a leading factor in many members’ decision to release early. In an effort to encourage greater participation, and more accurately portray the support available to our people and their families, the RCAF Family Sponsor Program has been renamed the RCAF Family Connection Program (FCP). This will alleviate the confusion with unit (military) sponsors, who are focused on the military member posted in; whereas the Family Connection Program puts the member’s family front and centre, and better reflects the purpose of the program, which is to build community and improve communication and connection at the wing and unit level. It’s designed to ease the stress of relocation and service-related separation by connecting families to each other and to local leadership. RCAF units work with local Military Family Resource Centres (MFRCs) to provide the FCP to any family who desires it when posted into an RCAF unit. Together they engage, build and maintain a team of volunteer connectors at each Wing. The volunteer connectors pro-actively reach out to families that are newly posted in or affected by dutyrelated separations. A proactive publicity campaign is
underway to re-brand the program families are encouraged to participate and disseminate an updated suite of in the RCAF FCP through their gaining products to support it. RCAF Command unit or their local MFRC. Every effort Team engagement will raise awareness will be made to match a newly-posted and gain support for the ever-important family with a volunteer connector that unit communication and connection. shares similar family circumstances The first-ever RCAF Families (children’s ages, special needs, etc.). website is also under construction with For our RCAF families who are the aim of providing families -by the staying put this year – and who would summer- with a one-stop-shop source of like to welcome another family into their information on programs and services community and share their valuable relating to priorities including health experience to ease military transitions care, spousal employment, child care, –please consider volunteering. and housing. Families truly are the strength Posted RCAF personnel and behind the uniform, and we appreciate
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VICTORY MARCH PRESENTED BY MILITARY PERSONNEL COMMAND
Join us this May in celebrating the history of friendship between the Netherlands and Canada as we march together in support of Boomer’s Legacy! Each year, a contingent of the Canadian Armed Forces attends the Four Day Marches in Nijmegen, Netherlands to participate the largest multi-day march in the world. This year the Victory March, presented by Military Personnel Command (MILPERSCOM), invites Canadian Armed Forces members, Defence community and their families to lace up with all Canadians to honour our history while supporting our Canadian Armed Forces members in providing humanitarian support both at home and abroad.
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MARCHE DE LA VICTOIRE PRÉSENTÉE PAR LE COMMANDEMENT DU PERSONNEL MILITAIRE
En mai, joignez-vous à nous pour célébrer l’histoire de l’amitié entre les Pays-Bas et le Canada alors que nous marchons ensembleen appui à « Boomer’s Legacy »! Chaque année, un contingent des Forces armées canadiennes assiste aux marches de quatre jours à Nimègue, aux Pays-Bas, pour participer à la plus grande marche de plusieurs jours au monde. Cette année, la marche de la Victoire, présentée par le commandement du personnel militaire (COMPERSMIL), invite les membres des Forces armées canadiennes, la communauté de la Défense et leurs familles à se lier avec tous les Canadiens et les Canadiennes pour honorer notre histoire tout en aidant les membres des Forces armées canadiennes à fournir un soutien humanitaire à la fois au pays et à l'étranger.
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How to start seedlings: the basics SOPHIE JOBIN, GUEST WRITER FOR PSP HEALTH PROMOTION
• Most little seeds are planted 1/2” or 1” deep watering. into the soilless mix. Seed packs have instructions on After germination, make sure to use grow lights. the back of the packet so follow them! Make sure to keep the grow light only a few inches As a gardener, this time of year can make one antsy. • Place each seed in the cell you assigned it. above the plants; as seedlings start to grow, make We have seeds ordered and counted, plans are drawn • If using a plug tray, place one seed per cell. If sure to adjust the space between the plant and light up and we are watching out the window until the snow using a 6-pack cell, place 2-3 seeds per cell. accordingly. Vegetable seedlings need at least 12 melts and the ground warms up. Okay, maybe not Domes, Warmth, Water and Lights hours of light per day. watching, but definitely waiting. To our relief, there Before germination, the humidity dome should For step-by-step visual instructions, check out is a way to get a jump start on the gardening season. be placed on top of the pug tray once the seeds are the “How to Start Seedlings” video on the “PSP – 4 One word: SEEDLINGS! Sowing seeds indoors sown. Once germination begins, remove the dome. Wing Cold Lake” YouTube Channel! Share what seeds allows you to get a jump on the growing season. In Bean The heat mat is placed under the trays and turned you’re growing by tagging @4winghealthpromotion Satisfied areas with short growing seasons, this method is ideal. Cold on every morning until night. Once germinated, the on Instagram or @4WingConnection on Facebook. Lake Equipment Needed: mat 2021 is removed. Fill the flat trays with water to allow You can also follow Sophie for more information @ April • Growing or flat trays the Colour water to soak up through the soil from the bottom. jobinkitchengarden on Instagram and Facebook and Full 6.79 in xlet 11.7the in cell dry out completely in-between tag your seedling posts with #jobinkitchengarden. • Seedling germination trays or cells Never • Soil medium • Heat mat • Labels • Humidity domes • Grow lights • Watering can • Storage shelves Steps for Sowing Seeds: Step 1: Set up your station. • Find the perfect spot in your house that doesn’t have a lot of draft and somewhere that you visit often. • Take your heat mat and place it on the bottom of the rack and tie your lights up from the top of the rack. • Grab all the seeds that you plan on planting that day along with your gardening notebook, BEAN SATISFIED INC. is a full-service Cold spreadsheet or app, pens or markers, and labels. Lake Gourmet Coffee Solution, because Step 2: Prepare the soilless mix. there is nothing for your business or • Grab a bowl and fill it with the soilless mix. employees to maintain or service. • Add some water into the mix to moisten it. Owner/operator Dan Hansen has a history with the Mix it evenly with your hands, make sure that it is Our on site service includes refilling the military starting with the army as a medic reservist in soppy and not soaking wet. 1998, transferring to the Military Police Branch in 2002, machine with all consumable products, • Fill each plug or cell with the pre-moistened and was posted throughout the west and Petawawa. Dan cleaning and sanitizing the equipment, soilless mix. also spent time overseas on TF 1-10 in 2010 with the performing preventative maintenance, and Police Operations Mentor and Liason Team (POML-T) Step 3: Map out your seedling trays and labels. and taught the Afghan Police. He retired from military in • Using your gardening notebook, spreadsheet in the event of a malfunction, repairing 2016 and started Bean Satisfied in 2019 with a love of or app, trace out the tray and make a square for each or replacing the machine promptly. We coffee. Dan has three kids and his wife is in the air force. cell identifying which seedling is in which. are dedicated to superior service and Dan and his family have been a part of the Cold Lake • Write the name of each seedling on the labels Community since 2015. satisfaction in every way. before planting. • To ensure we don’t get anything mixed up, paint or place tape on one of the corners. HOW DOES THE COFFEE TASTE? Step 4: Sow your seeds • Place the seedling tray on top of the flat tray.
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Crossword ACROSS 1. Switches 7. Legal financial term (abbr.) 10. Sweeties 12. Competition 13. Measures electrical resistance 14. Psychotherapy researcher 15. Causes injury to 16. Open 17. Polish peninsula 18. Hebrew calendar month 19. Whale ship captain 21. Children’s accessory 22. Unknown point 27. Exists 28. Extremely confident 33. Expression of disgust 34. The government has many 36. Small constellation 37. Northern Indian city 38. The best pitchers 39. Naturally occurring solid 40. Apple computers 41. Portuguese city 44. Ancient Greek war dance 45. More reliable
48. Sailboat 49. Newspapers 50. Frequently flooded area 51. They dig for coal DOWN 1. Partial 2. ‘Mad Men’ leading man 3. The __ of March 4. Healthy 5. Where golfers begin 6. Soviet Socialist Republic (abbr.) 7. Of the cheek 8. Injury reminder 9. Statesman Franklin 10. For an unknown reason 11. Brain parts 12. Islamic calendar month 14. Avenue where ad men work 17. Possesses 18. Accept 20. Stake 23. Former British PM May 24. US battleships circa 1939 25. Greek alphabet letter
26. When you hope to get there 29. Top lawyer 30. Fiddler crabs 31. Intolerant 32. Persons that cause extreme fear 35. Car mechanics group 36. Capital of Ghana 38. Famed ballplayer Hank
40. Emphasizes insignificance 41. Light-colored 42. Distinctive smell 43. Muckraking journalist Jacob 44. Sunscreen rating 45. Short-term memory 46. Japanese delicacy 47. One point north of due east
CAPRICORN - December 22 - January 19 Capricorn, even though you cannot please everyone, you can do what is necessary to make yourself happy. Make this your primary goal this week. AQUARIUS - January 20 - February 18 Aquarius, people may misunderstand your intentions when you start a new project. You don’t have to please everyone right now. The end result will be met with positive responses. PISCES - February 19 - March 20 Moving on from an emotional situation can be taxing, Pisces. But it may be necessary right now and could make you stronger in the long run. ARIES - March 21 - April 19 Aries, you have a unique perspective, and sometimes you appear uninterested in the opinions of others. But this week it is best to be humble and accept other thoughts. TAURUS - April 20 - May 20 Taurus, you routinely put caring for others ahead of caring for yourself. This compassion is commendable, but you can’t offer help if you aren’t in top form. GEMINI - May 21 - June 21 Gemini, let others bring up issues with you rather than prying. You willingness to lend an ear is wellknown, and others will come to you on their own. CANCER - June 22 - July 22 It may be tempting to slack off when supervisors are not looking, Cancer. However, a lack of discipline now may have a trickle-down effect in the future. Stay focused. LEO - July 23 - August 22 You may not be sure if you should pursue an opportunity that is before you, Leo. Consider your skills and talents and be honest with what you are capable of accomplishing. VIRGO - August 23 - September 22 Virgo, even though it can be risky to express your true feelings, especially when you go against popular opinion, don’t shy away from being true to yourself. LIBRA - September 23 - October 22 Your head is pushing you in a practical direction, Libra. Yet your heart wants you to go a different way. Try to find a balance between both scenarios. SCORPIO - October 23 - November 21 Scorpio, others are ready and willing to offer advice if they sense you need it. While you can be open to suggestions, don’t follow others’ dreams if they aren’t your own. SAGITTARIUS - November 22 - December 21 You may be conflicted about telling someone you need a little personal space, Sagittarius. But it’s not good to suffer through situations that make you unhappy.
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Lest we forget - May 2nd, 1971 LCOL (RET’D) DANIEL LEDUC, 401 SQUADRON For the past 50 years, May 2nd has been a special day for me. It is the anniversary of an event where I personally witnessed tragedy, bravery and courage all in one day. On April 30th, 1971, 401 Air Reserve Squadron deployed its Otter aircraft and personnel to the Petersville, New Brunswick grass airstrip to participate in Exercise Wild Goose II and provide air observation support to ground forces based at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown. Upon arrival, we set up our tents and began to carry out our taskings. The following day, May 1st, we continued our missions until the end of the day where we began to prepare the aircraft for the following morning’s departure for Fredericton airport to refuel and return to our home base in St-Hubert, Quebec. During those preparations, I was tasked to carry out a regularly scheduled primary inspection on the engine for aircraft 3689. The inspection was performed with no defects found and the aircraft was signed off as serviceable. After everything was readied for the next morning, we all gathered around a campfire and had an enjoyable evening, getting to know our newest squadron member, Lieutenant Ron Ehrne. The following day, May 2nd, we carried out one last tasking which involved our Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Fergus Kyle and technical crewman Corporal Mark Lesiak on aircraft 3694 dropping a chalk of paratroopers from a high altitude. Upon their return, crews and passengers were assigned to their respective aircraft. I was assigned as the technical crewman on aircraft 3692, flown by Lieutenant Colonel Kyle. Aboard aircraft 3689 were Lieutenant Ron Ehrne (pilot), Captain Roy Lefebvre (co-pilot) and Corporal Mark Lesiak (technical crewman). The passengers were Lieutenant Jane Stobbe (administration officer), Private John Kiraly (aviation technician) and Air Cadet Owen Penk. Aircraft 3692 was one of the first aircraft to takeoff from the airstrip while aircraft 3689 was waiting its turn in the queue. A few minutes after takeoff, I had plugged into the aircraft’s intercom system to listen in on the radio communications. Suddenly, I heard the
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Historical picture of aircraft 3689 being towed into Hangar 10 at CFB St-Hubert. horrible words “AIRCRAFT DOWN” from another aircraft. We immediately made a left hand turn to return to the airstrip and saw aircraft 3689, inverted in a field across the road from the airstrip, and on fire. After we landed back at the airstrip, we ran towards the crash site to render any assistance we could. Corporal Lesiak was able to evacuate the passengers from the cabin and get Captain Lefebvre out of the cockpit. He then attempted to get Lieutenant Ehrne out but was unable due to the condition of the wreckage and the fast approaching flames from the post-crash fire. After the crash site was secured and the injured were taken to the hospital, we proceeded to Fredericton airport to refuel before the long flight back home. Upon our arrival in Fredericton, Lieutenant Colonel Kyle convened a meeting with all of us to see how we were doing. Although visibly shaken like the rest of us, he displayed calm and strength as a leader which gave us comfort and confidence. Since I had performed the engine primary inspection the day before the accident, I had experienced a lot of selfdoubt whether I missed anything during the inspection. I was relieved when the Flight Safety investigators determined that the engine was operating normally at the time of the accident. This was a hard lesson learned which guided me throughout my military and civilian aviation careers whenever I certified an aircraft after maintenance. The crash wreckage was eventually
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repatriated to our hangar at St-Hubert awaiting disposition and served as a grim reminder of the risky profession we have chosen. For his brave and courageous actions on that day, Corporal Lesiak received a Good Show award from the Directorate of Flight Safety and was subsequently decorated with the Star of Courage by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Rideau Hall. Mark never considered himself a hero, just part of the aircraft crew doing his duty. Mark and I served together in 401 Squadron for many years after that and we seldom spoke about the accident, respecting his humility and privacy. We also went to college together and Mark has been a good friend throughout all these years. I also appreciate his assistance in writing this article. A few years later after the accident, 401 Squadron returned to Petersville to dedicate a cairn in memory of Lieutenant Ron Ehrne. 401 Squadron has a proud history that was firmly established in World War II as a fighter unit and has the battle honours on its squadron standard to prove it. It proudly served for many decades after the war as an Auxiliary and Air Reserve Squadron at its StHubert base operating the Vampire, Sabre, T33, Harvard, Expeditor, Otter and Kiowa and was disbanded in 1996. In 2015, it was reactivated as a CF18 fighter squadron at 4 Wing in Cold Lake where it resumed its fighter role at home and abroad. After the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions are lifted across
Canada, the former 401 members would look forward to reconnect with its “extended family” out west. Editor’s Note: Lieutenant Colonel (ret’d) Daniel Leduc served 32 years in the Primary Reserves and 10 years in the Supplementary Reserves. The first 22 years were with 401 Squadron as an Aviation Technician, Technical Crewman and Squadron Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Officer. He subsequently served with 438 Air Reserve Squadron, 1 Tactical Aviation Wing, 1 Tactical Aviation Support Squadron and the Canadian Forces Liaison Council. He also had a parallel civilian aviation career in aircraft maintenance and certification with Transport Canada, Innotech Aviation, Air Canada and Bombardier.
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